Firefighters work to put out a fire in an open field, following a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, near a hospital in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

The National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization has called for a “Day of Resistance” on college campuses across the US, distributing propaganda aimed at re-framing the conversation surrounding Hamas’ terrorist invasion of Israel.

As part of the efforts to promote its campaign, SJP has issued a “Day of Resistance toolkit” that includes counsel on how to describe Israel’s existence as “settler colonialism” and “imperialism.” One document, titled “What Is Zionism: A Short Introduction on the Colonization of Palestine,” equates the migration of Jews to their ancestral homeland after World War II to the Nazi’s invasion of Poland in 1939.

“Zionism is a form of settler colonialism. In a contemporary context, it refers to support for the colonization of Palestine to establish the white supremacist, Eurocentric, Jewish state of Israel,” the document says. “The indigenous people are considered less than human by their colonizers and are depicted as dangerous and barbaric by the imperial powers that wish to eliminate them.”

In a section titled “Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism,” SJP says that “Zionism and antisemitism have often gone in hand in hand,” adding that the “relegation of Jews to a specific area aligns with the goals of anti-Semites to remove Jews from ‘their countries.'” Another document, titled “Gaza toolkit,” says that “in order for Israel to maintain itself and continue the colonization of Palestinian land, it has put in place of variety of Jewish ethnonationalist laws and practices.”

Campus-based SJP chapters, including those operating at Ivy League universities, have already appeared to answer the national organization’s call. On Thursday, the University of Virginia’s chapter will hold a “teach in” for showing solidarity in support of Palestinians against Israel. Meanwhile, George Mason University’s chapter has scheduled an event, titled “Emergency Palestine Protest: Support the Resistance, End the Occupation.” Other events have been slated for Friday, including the Duke University SJP’s “Call to Action for Palestine,” for which participants are instructed to “bring sings, flags, kuffiyehs [sic], friends.”

As The Algemeiner has previously reported, support for terrorism against Israeli civilians among SJP chapters is growing. Many in the past year have posted violent imagery on their social media, showing guns and other symbols and representations of war. Last year, at the University of Chicago, the SJP chapter honored Khairy Alqam — who murdered seven Israeli civilians exiting a synagogue in Jerusalem — in a collage titled “Honoring the Martyrs.”

“This new level of alignment of SJP with the genocidal goals of Hamas should be troubling to every university that hosts an SJP chapter,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of antisemitism watchdog AMCHA Initiative, told The Algemeiner on Tuesday. “Supporting horrific violence against Jews in Israel in the name of resistance ‘by any means necessary’ is terrifying to American Jewish students, staff, and faculty, many of whose close family and friends live in Israel.”

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